[tacticalogic]

It's insane how infected some of these broadband ISP's are with this stuff, a virgin system gets popped within 10 mins on a lot of them. They're going to have to better authenticate, and the more you'll pay the sounder your service will be. You can already join one of the major ISP's and get similar protetion now, but some would rather ride these big waves anyway. So it will never end, some will just better isolate themselves from it.

At the very least, the broadband and dsl providers ought to be stopping smtp traffic from their clients, or at least making arrangements for an authorization process to enable it. I stop the majority of spam from hitting my mail servers by using RDNS, and blocking all the address spaces assigned to China. AOL is testing the new SPF (Sender Permitted From) DNS extention, and I'm waiting to see how that turns out.

[Golden Eagle]

At the very least, the broadband and dsl providers ought to be stopping smtp traffic from their clients, or at least making arrangements for an authorization process to enable it.

They don't want to turn anything off, unless they turn it all off, then the customers all raise hell and threaten to drop. The ISP's seem to be at a break even point though, no way to add staff or features like security without raising their rates, something nobody wants, but maybe inevitable.